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My kind of food. Thanks! I just added some cracked black pepper. It's easy to cut sodium if you just stop and think. Use fresh beans rather than canned. Rinse the bacon. Use low sodium broth. There are things you can do!
- 8/18/08

Great recipe. Made it without bacon and basil as I didnt have any on hand. Added fresh thyme and marjoram. Topped with few shaves of cheese. It made for a creamy, thick soup with a sweet vegetable flavor. Even my husband liked it!
- 5/3/10

Love this soup! I only had one yellow pepper and half a small red pepper. So I subsituted a medium chopped carrot. I also added a bay leaf and a tsp of dried oregano. Very yummy and thanks for sharing!
- 1/22/10

This soup is amazing! I omitted the bacon, and added a handful of leftover baked chicken, and everyone in my family loved it. It is delicious, and so colorful--my kids called it rainbow soup. Can't wait to eat the leftovers!
- 1/15/09

I would use more bacon (I couldn't taste it at all). It had more flavor than expected, and it was very filling. I don't care for beans and had never had spinach before, but they were edible in this recipe. It needed something else though, some kind of meat maybe. Some main flavor instead of so many.
- 8/19/08

I make a soup very similar to this without the bacon. There is no need for it, believe me it taste beter without it. I grew up up eating soup like this & it doesn't need the bacon. If you want you can put just a couple of slices of smoked turkey sausage instead.
- 8/18/08